In response to Philip Hazel:
> > Yes, the ideal solution would be to get the customer to configure
> > their mailer sensibly
>
> Not only sensibly, but in accordance with RFC 821. Don't you have some
> conditions of service with your customer that makes them adhere to
> the normal Internet standards, such as they are?
Good question -- I'm only a techie. 8-)
But even if we can disconnect them, or whatever, someone is going to
mis-configure their mailer the same way on a Friday evening and cause
problems all through the weekend until we catch them, which is why I
was hoping for a solution in Exim.
> A system set up the way
> you describe is going to cause all sorts of chaos.
Agreed completely.
Looking at the header, for what it's worth, it claims to be:
Received: from pop3.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.33] by xxxxxxx.nl
[192.168.nnn.nnn] with POP (MDaemon.v2.6.rA.b2.32-R) for
<web-klanten@???>; Fri, 03 Jul 98 08:02:00 +0200
(where xxxxxxxx and nnn are to protect the guilty, and the line is
folded); I wonder who makes "POP (MDaemon.v2.6.rA.b2.32-R)" and how
easy it is to mis-configure in that way.
> What does it do with
> messages with envelope recipient x@??? and To: lines like
>
> To: x@???, y@???, z@???
> Cc: pqr@???
>
> ? Does is send copies to all those other addresses? Sheesh.
No idea, though I would _guess_ that maybe it spots the @their.domain
and realises that the mail really is local. If anyone knows this
particular piece of software, they can probably answer the question
better than I can. I don't deal directly with customers (fortunately)
and don't know anything about their software.
Gyan.
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